Belarus spy chief in exile planning insurrection

In 2020, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya declared herself the winner of presidential elections in Belarus. But after the arrest of her husband, she fled to Poland. Since then, she’s assembled a cabinet of ministers that includes a spy chief. The World’s Carol Hills interviews Aleksander Azarov, the opposition government’s spymaster, about his work and ambitions for Belarus.

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